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Officially, the Reagan Administration clings to its policy of "constructive engagement," essentially the application of friendly pressure on South Africa to end apartheid. But one State Department official asserts bluntly that relations with South Africa right now "are lousy." Washington last month called home Ambassador Herman Nickel "for consultations" as a sign of displeasure with the government in Pretoria. Some White House aides have hinted that they will work in House-Senate conference for a sanctions measure mild enough to win President Reagan's reluctant consent...
...with it. Later there was Pretoria's imposition of an appointed interim government in Windhoek, the Namibian capital. Washington has also been jolted by South African raids into neighboring countries. The incursion into Botswana in June, for example, led to the Administration's decision to call U.S. Ambassador Herman Nickel home for consultations; Nickel has yet to return to Pretoria...
...crucial area of reform. "If he really wanted to lead with moral authority," says California state treasurer Phil Angelides, a Democrat running for Governor in 2006, "He would be asking everyone to make sacrifices. But he has been totally unwilling to ask those with means to give a nickel of their resources. We need a comprehensive package-spending cuts and revenue increases," that is, tax hikes. Angelides adds that G.O.P. Governors Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson proposed both...
...London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...
...It’s a substantial position and the people she’s going to be working with are really looking forward to having her on board,” said Nickel...